{"id":604702,"date":"2026-04-15T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:04:08","slug":"tom-cruise-teases-comedy-at-cinemacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604702\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Teases Comedy At CinemaCon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Cruise<\/a> is in the building!<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros.<\/a> and Legendary on Tuesday offered a first extended look at Digger<\/a>, their dark comedy teaming Tom Cruise with The Revenant and Birdman helmer Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a>, with both on hand at CinemaCon<\/a> to tease the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tDigger\u2018s title and logline were kept under wraps for some time, but we now know the film stars Cruise, in a transformative turn, as the most powerful man in the world, who races to prove he is humanity\u2019s savior before the disaster he unleashed destroys everything.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the trailer, we find balding, big-bellied industrialist Digger Rockwell meeting with a doctor about his cat, who he\u2019s told has either \u201ctwo weeks or five minutes\u201d to live.<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, speaking in a Southern accent, swinging baseball bass in pajamas, he yells at himself, saying, \u201cHustle is something you sorely lack, you lazy piece of sh*t!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tA scientist then speaks with him on Zoom about something Digger keeps calling a \u201cfive-foot crack\u201d and compares to the size of his penis.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat do you want me to do?\u201d Digger asks, \u201cShut down a billion-dollar platform over something a tenth the size of my dick?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWe learn that Digger has brought on some kind of environmental disaster via his business activities \u2014 compromising \u201cthe structural integrity of the entire ice shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident John Goodman explores the \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d \u2014 the disaster will displace millions and cause trillions in economic impact \u2014 but assures his staffers, \u201cDigger got us into this, and Digger is going to dig us out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cPanic is a resource,\u201d Digger says optimistically. \u201cPanic wakes people up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAppearing alongside I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and his Magnolia co-star Patton Oswalt, who hosted Warner Bros.\u2019 presentation, Cruise said he first began talking with the filmmaker about working together seven years ago. Excited about the prospect, Cruise got on his motorcycle \u201cin the middle of the night\u201d to meet, coming from work on Top Gun: Maverick.<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise called the project \u201cne plus ultra,\u201d wild and funny, saying, \u201cThis kind of movie is why I want to make movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tI\u00f1\u00e1rritu said the film is about \u201cthe uncontrollable, delusional need to control things even when we know that we will fail\u201d \u2014 \u201ca powerful man who did not change the world but changed the way people see the world.\u201d He said he shot it \u201cin Vistavision, only to be seen in theaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWatching Tom Cruise becoming Digger, I was not prepared for that, I have to say,\u201d the director added. \u201cWe know that he is fearless: the stunts, the planes, the jumps. But I have to say, I think this is another kind of fearless. This role possibly could be [his] most challenging \u2026 and actually it was a high-wire act. I hope you will see what I mean [by] that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tI\u00f1\u00e1rritu previously told Deadline at Cannes<\/a> that Digger is a \u201cwild comedy of catastrophic proportions.\u201d He said of Cruise: \u201cHe makes me laugh every day. The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director. I was so f*cking impressed and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u00f1\u00e1rritu directed Digger from a script written with Alexander Dinelaris, Nicol\u00e1s Giacobone and Sabina Berman, also producing alongside Cruise, and Mary Parent for Legendary Entertainment. Opening October 2 opposite Amazon MGM\u2019s Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity, helmed by Michael Showalter, pic\u2019s cast also includes Jesse Plemons, Sandra H\u00fcller, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D\u2019Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman, and Michael Stuhlbarg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise is in the building! Warner Bros. and Legendary on Tuesday offered a first extended look at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[228463,49,48,207133,177359,75,337,9588,4432],"class_list":{"0":"post-604702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alejandro-g-iu00f1u00e1rritu","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cinemacon","12":"tag-digger","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-tom-cruise","16":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}